This question was brought up on another list with quite a long thread and the answer appears to be no. Orca wasn't written to support hardware synthesizers. Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Is there a way of using this, or any hardware synthesizer with orca? > Orca is the baseline for these twitter alternatives after all. > Karen > > > > On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > > Isn?t it true that you can also use hardware synthesizers with Speech > > Dispatcher? I thought I remembered seeing modules for synths such as > > Apollo. > > > > > > Ryan Mann > > Certified Assistive Technology Instructional Specialist > > rmann0581@xxxxxxxxx > > 386-383-5175 > > > > > >> On Jan 29, 2023, at 7:43 PM, Linux for blind general discussion > >> <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Le 30/01/2023 ? 00:40, Karen wrote : > >>> Speech dispatcher is, to the best of my knowledge, a software speech > >>> source only. > >> > >> No. Speech dispatcher takes as input the text sent by screen readers like > >> orca > >> or fenrir or speechd-up or speechd-el or emacspeak and send it to a speech > >> synthesizer (like espeak-ng, pico, flite rhvoice or voxin). The speech > >> synthesizer converts this text to phonemes then convert them to an audio > >> file > >> using one of the voices it handles. This audio file (the speech) is sent > >> back to > >> speech dispatcher, which in turn send it to an audio application like > >> pulse-audio or alsa or pipewire, that send it to an audio device. > >> > >> So what hear actually depends not on speech dispatcher but on the speech > >> synthesizer you use and the voice you select among those it handles. > >> > >> For instance if on the console you use fenrir as screen reader and > >> espeak-ng as > >> speech synthesizer and one of its voices, you will hear exactly the same > >> voice > >> if in the preferences GUI of Orca (another screen reader) you select the > >> same > >> speech synthesizer (espeak-ng) and the same voice. Similarly if you use > >> fenrir > >> with rhvoice as speech synthesizer and one of its voices, you can also use > >> rhvoice and hear the same voice when using Orca. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Didier > >> -- > >> Didier Spaier > >> didieratslintdotfr > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Blinux-list mailing list > >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list